Carlton AFLW Review - Half Gone

[ElwoodBlues1]

I have not had enough to do with girls in team sport outside of footy or cricket to know the global answer to that question. I think it may be different for team events that are built on individual efforts like swimming, tennis or golf, etc., etc.. Even cricket seemed to suffer it less, but it's a much smaller tighter squad and the on field comes down to bat versus ball.

But I can say I've never seen anything in male footy teams like what goes on around and about the female footy teams, and changing a pronoun or two in the female squad makes bugger all difference.

In the men you get individual blokes that outright hate each other off the pitch for a variety of reasons, but it rarely persists and I've never seen it form a clique or seen blokes made a persona non grata like you find in a girls team. Of course you can see certain trouble players kicked out of any squad, like Carey at Norp, but this is not what we are talking about.

Which is why I chose the term clique.

Nth was a clique when Carey was at its peak, he ran the playing group with his henchman and everyone knew their place and it strangely worked and was sanctioned by the coach and admin. I dont follow the womens comp that closely  but if you rip the heart out of the list like has what happened at Carlton and lose experience/talent then you quickly get the remaining players looking after their own survival and forgetting about the team.
Harford will be the fall guy but he hasnt done much wrong apart from being in the job at the wrong time of the clubs journey and being left with no star players to do the job with. Very hard to draft a team at this embryonic stage of the womens comp and you need to buy the best players like back when the mens team were successful and we used form fours to grab the best talent along with brown paper bags of cash.